Photoshop: Line weight in clipping paths

Yes, my entire art department is going crazy with the thinner line weight in making paths and often wind up with a zig zag path where points don't meet up. its virtually impossible to see and you wind up with extra points on your image. In CS6, I made paths in no time at all, and now I feel like this has slowed my work flow down considerably.

Unfortunately, I can't, because the higher resolution on the screen makes the files that were created in CS6 appear thin as well. I'm thinking its a 2 fold problem, the 4k and higher screen and the path line weight in CC photoshop

I had this issue when I went to the higher res display also. I know this isn't a fix, but it is my band-aid solution.

Use your pen tool set to a shape layer rather than a workpath. I know, the end goal is a path, but this solves the visibility issue. Set a stroke weight on your path, and under more options you can tell it to draw inside, outside, center, on the path. Which really depends on what you're tracing. But I find this helpful to see the quality of my path also. See below for settings.

Drawn path as shape layer, stroke weight/color set to inside.

Now, draw around your objects. When you finish you'll see not only your shape layer (which you don't need) but also in the paths palette you'll see that shape layer's path. Drag that to the new path icon and it'll make a copy for you. See below.

That copy is now a regular workpath that you can convert to a clipping path or anything you want. Now you can delete your shape layer (unless you want to keep it for reference, I keep mine and hide them).

Now you can set your own weight on the path, use colors to contrast against the image you're tracing, and still get your workpath in the end.

ps: As a nice to have, save it as a preset for your pen tool. Then anytime you need to do this sort of thing you can load it as a tool-preset and just start doing your trace.

You can also set the path-mode on the pen or shape tool in the top tool propterties menu from "New Layer" to "Combine Shapes" or "Subtract Shapes". You can also select sub-paths that are already there or that you pasted in and change it after the fact (if you have the path tool selected) to be subtractive or whatever to punch holes out. Not sure if that translates across to work paths though.